#133: Child development expert, social entrepreneur and preacher Teri Gilmore describes her journey.
Release Date: 07/27/2025
#149 What's a death doula and why you might need one explained by Lee Ann Heitzel in her second visit to Your Spiritual Journey.
Your Spiritual Journey
Lee Ann Heitzel was our guest for episode #108 which aired in February 2025. During that discussion her focus was on her MetaArt which decorated the doors behind her and a special door at Lily Dale, New York. In this episode she focuses on her work as a death doula. At an early age, Lee Ann could assist those crossing over, creating a safe and loving space for the death experience to unfold. She fostered this natural esoteric ability for decades, working from the ‘side of spirit’ to support both loved ones and strangers who would ask for assistance. Years of this work revealed to her how...
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#148 Your Light Body and how to activate it becomes clear from this discussion with Dena DeLuco.
Your Spiritual Journey
Dena DeLuco is a spiritual teacher, speaker, and creator of the Activate Your LightBody program, a unique offering that helps people clear energetic blocks, raise their vibration, and live from a place of clarity and purpose. With a background in NLP / Life Coaching and hypnotherapy, she blends science-based tools with spiritual insight to guide clients through powerful transformation. Dena is passionate about helping people remember who they really are and align with their highest potential in practical, everyday ways. She loves guiding people to clear the static, raise their...
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#147 Harvard Neurospirituality lab teaching associate and LGBTQ+ advocate Rev. Marian Edmonds-Allen discusses Christian Nationalism
Your Spiritual Journey
Our second guest pastor to challenge the tenets of the Christian Nationalist movement (see Rev. Janet Edwards, episode 142) Marian provides the keys to bridge-building that gives us hope for compassionate communication. Rev. Dr. Marian Edmonds-Allen is a pastor, peacebuilder, and bridge-builder whose life has been shaped by a profound spiritual journey—one that began in traditional ministry and led through a personal awakening to her own LGBTQ+ identity. Today, she serves as Executive Director of Parity, a New York City–based nonprofit that works internationally to heal divides between...
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#146 What color is your aura? Find out as you hear the story of Helen Ye Plehn and the Aura Color Wheel System
Your Spiritual Journey
Helen Ye Plehn is the founder of Helen Creates Beauty and the author of the Aura Color Wheel by Hay House Publishing: a system to identify your soul's purpose through your Soul Aura Color. She is an angel channeler, intuitive painter, and spiritual teacher. Her signature courses, Radiant Aura Activation and Embody Your Light, based on the Aura Color Wheel system, have named her a Visionary Educator on MSN.com. She is trained in many spiritual wisdom practices; Her students and clients call her the spiritual jack-of-all-trades. She is a certified crystal healer, third-generation Feng Shui...
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#145 Many mystical interludes make up the spiritual journey of Emily Rodavich as shared here.
Your Spiritual Journey
Emily Rodavich is a retired teacher, author, inventor, and the founder of The Mystical Interludes Discussion Group. While in elementary school, she was traumatized by the death of a neighbor. That event left her with a paralyzing fear of death until age 18, when a Near-Death Experience changed her life. In those days a person could lose all credibility by talking about any personal mystical event, so she was advised to never talk about it. But her mystical experiences didn’t end there. Everything from synchronicities to an out-of-body visit to a past life have surprised her up to...
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#144 Parent of neurodivergent children and depth psychologist Dr. Nicole Dolan tells her fascinating story.
Your Spiritual Journey
Are neurodivergent children here to help us navigate the chaos of current world situations? Depth psychologist Dr. Nicole Dolan delves into this question and more as she talks about the importance of conscious parenting, her Sacred Path Therapy practice, and her podcast, Sacred Conversations, which she co-hosts. As a parent of two neurodivergent children, she speaks from first-hand knowledge about the challenges and opportunities of motherhood. She established Sacred Path Therapy as a non-profit to provide affordable holistic, professional, effective couneling for individuals, families and...
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#143 Nigerian born journalist Peculiar Medinus talks about the meaning of ugly from London
Your Spiritual Journey
Lessons to be learned from our perceptions of ugly. Introspection at its best. Peculiar Medinus was a foreign correspondent and newspaper columnist from Nigeria when she moved to London to become a columnist there. She has written multiple books that examine our ability to put faith into action and make a difference in the world. Give a listen.
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#142 Presbyterian advocate for the LGBTQIA community Rev. Janet Edwards speaks her truth.
Your Spiritual Journey
Rev. Dr. Janet Edwards is a Presbyterian minister in Pittsburgh, PA for 48 years, who worships at the Community of Reconciliation. She presently serves on the board of Auburn Theological Seminary and is the Moderator of the Anti-Racism Transformation Team of Pittsburgh Presbytery. She is a former Board Member of More Light Presbyterians, a national organization working toward full inclusion of LGBTQIA people within the Presbyterian Church (USA). In 2008 Rev. Edwards was tried and unanimously acquitted by a church court of charges for violating Scripture and the Constitution of the PCUSA by...
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#141 Ketamine therapy specialist and psychiatric nurse practitioner Scarlet Fannin takes us on a journey.
Your Spiritual Journey
Scarlet Fannin is a vibrant soul — a spirit of life, an emissary, and what she likes to call a “mother tree.” She’s also a board-certified psychiatric nurse practitioner with a deep focus on psychedelics. Born in Prince George’s County, Maryland, and raised mostly in Virginia, she proudly calls herself a Virginia girl, though she now calls Shepherdstown, West Virginia home. In January 2021, Scarlet opened her private practice, Pathway to Mental Health, where she specializes in ketamine therapy. Passionate about healing and growth, she’s continued to dive deep into the world of...
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#140 Hindu Swami Revatikaanta relates his inspirational spiritual journey
Your Spiritual Journey
Swami Revatikaanta is a spiritual educator and one of the most senior monks in Bhakti Marga, the international spiritual movement founded by his guru, Paramahamsa Vishwananda. With nearly two decades of discipleship and deep study of sacred texts, he has cultivated a profound understanding of Vedic philosophy and human psychology. Inspired by his master, he has taught thousands across the globe, offering clear, insightful, and often humorous guidance to those walking the spiritual path. Swami is known for his direct communication style and a unique ability to draw out relevant wisdom for...
info_outlineTeri Gilmore describes herself as a dedicated Social Entrepreneur; driven by a progressive outlook concerning leadership, organizational community & program development. She is fervent when constructing collaborative relationships to support children, families and community through sustainable programming. Her passion was fostering the development of the whole child as an individual while sustaining the child within healthy familial, communal, and societal contexts collectively. After 40 years she has retired.
Since 1984 Teri has liberally committed herself to civic engagement (Mortar Board National College Senior Honor Society & Sigma Alpha Lambda National Leadership & Honors Organization, Vietnam Veterans Memorial Fund “The Wall That Heals” volunteer August 2018), and eventually serving on the boards of two organizations (Lions International Mon River Fleet, Spreading The Word Children’s Ministry).
Her expert knowledge of Child Development and evidence-based practices has allowed her to provide consultative services on the Local, County, State, and Federal tiers; including DHS/Office of Child Development and Early Learning (OCDEL) Think Tank Revision of Keystone Stars CQI. Teri has developed programs addressing real life tribulations of vulnerable children; all of which were presented at various conferences. Most noted at 2011 Let’s Move Pittsburgh Regional Symposium; the Public Health Campaign led by First Lady Michelle Obama. While internationally referred to as “Dr. Gilmore”, Ms. Gilmore’s work has reached as far as Hiroshima, Japan/2013 and Copenhagen, Denmark/2015 at the 9th & 11th International Conference on Environmental, Cultural, Economic & Social Sustainability. Ms. Gilmore received an invitation to present at the University of Oxford’s International Round Table Symposiums; March 2019 at Harris Manchester College in Oxford England.
Ms. Gilmore holds an AS in Pedology, Academic Studies, and a Certificate in Black, Minority and Ethnic Studies from CCAC, a Certificate in Early Literacy and a Certificate in Building Bridges from Beginning with Books, a BS in Child Development and Family Relations from IUP, and hopes to complete a MS at the University of Pittsburgh School of Education, with a Psychology in Education concentration; specializing in the area of Applied Developmental Psychology.
During March 2012 Teri was licensed to preach. On January 15, 2019 Minister Gilmore provided the Benediction for the Swearing-In of our previous Lieutenant Governor John K. Fetterman!